Description
Poetry. "Susan M. Schultz's DEMENTIA BLOG is as astonishing as it is tragic. Following the odd form of the blog, which is written forward in time but read backwards, it charts the fragmented disorienting progression (if this is the word) of her mother's dementia. Schultz sees through her family's personal tragedy to the profound social and philosophical implications of the unraveling of sense and soul: a deranged nation, so unmoored from coherence that it is unable to feel the difference between political rhetoric and the destructiveness of war. Full of intimate personal detail, DEMENTIA BLOG sweetly and sadly unwinds itself into timelessness."—Norman Fischer
Author Bio
Susan M. Schultz has lived in and worked in Hawai'i since 1990. She is author of a critical book, A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2005), and several books of poetry and poetic prose. Most recently, Singing Horse Press published DEMENTIA BLOG (2008), MEMORY CARDS: 2010-2011 SERIES (2011) and "SHE'S WELCOME TO HER DISEASE" [DEMENTIA BLOG, VOLUME TWO] (2013). Vagabond Press published Memory Cards: Dogen Series in their deciBels Series, and Talisman House, Publishers published MEMORY CARDS: THOMAS TRAHERNE SERIES (2016) and I WANT TO WRITE AN HONEST SENTENCE (2019). She founded Tinfish Press in 1995, and continues to publish experimental poetry from the Pacific. In 2014, she founded the Compassion Hui on her campus at UHM, which works to create better awareness of mental health issues. She is a life-long fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Author City: HONOLULU, HI USA